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Group message Flood

Postby Ronbyram » Sun Apr 18, 2021 2:20 pm

Hey Gang,
Over the last several weeks, massive floods of messages have started to appear or various news groups just random text of characters and approx 500 posts a day
I see newbin has a filter, But how can I tner ways top supress this junk.
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Re: Group message Flood

Postby Quade » Mon Apr 19, 2021 12:04 pm

A subject reject for "[0-9a-z]{24}" In the global filter should hide these posts.

It means "hide any single word at least 24 characters long with no spaces containing the numbers 0 to 9 and the letters A to Z.
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Re: Group message Flood

Postby Ronbyram » Sat Apr 24, 2021 9:09 pm

Hey thanks for the feed back, but I have to ask, is there a demo how to add this filter? I trieds to enter and test said it worked but now trying to filter and nothing or else I dont know what to expect.
same subject I see is like

b1281895ce5742a8a7dfe683c08803d5 [18/37] "b1281895ce5742a8a7dfe683c08803d5.part17.rar" yEnc
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Re: Group message Flood

Postby mimauk » Sun Apr 25, 2021 4:54 am

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